Nicolas Sarkozy People Quotations

The French people need to have all the facts so they can choose. And I won't be running away from it or hiding from it.

I'm ready to become a French person amongst French people, and more than ever I have the love for my country deeply ingrained in my heart.

Many people living in these neighborhoods suffer. But nothing can excuse such useless, such blind violence like we saw,

One asks himself why a certain number of young French people are in Pakistan in religious schools, ... It's not normal that an individual who lives in our neighborhoods leaves all of a sudden for four months in Afghanistan, three months in Syria. We want to know who is going where, for how long, and when they come back.

I am deeply worried because we are seeing an unleashing of violence by 2,000 to 3,000 thugs who come to smash and loot. My objective is to avoid mistakes by the police, so that people can protest in safety.

French people want us to re-establish the order of the republic, ... We will answer their expectation, because we can't build a future in violence.

I think some people wanted to exploit this thing for political ends.

those people that nobody else in the world wants.

Some people start further back because they have a handicap - color, culture or the district they come from. So we have to help them.

The attitude is that the people are French before they are anything else,

I want these people to be able to live in peace.

By accepting people to whom we unfortunately cannot propose work or housing, we are finding ourselves in a situation where we are having tragedies like this,

Canadians are friends and Quebecers are my family. What France knows deep down is that within this great Canadian people, there is a Quebec nation. I do not see how proving my family, brotherly love for Quebec should be strengthened by defying Canada.

The French people have chosen change. This change I will put into place.

I understand that people might be poor if they don't have any work, but I don't accept that someone is poor if they've worked really hard.

With the world in turmoil and doubt, the American people, faithful to the values that have always defined America's identity, have expressed with force their faith in progress and the future. At a time when we must face huge challenges together, your election has raised enormous hope in France, in Europe and beyond.

If living in France bothers some people, they should feel free to leave the country.

Nothing is more destructive than the gap between people's perceptions of their own day-to-day economic well-being and what politicians and statisticians are telling them about the economy

Each time there is a news story, sometimes that gives ideas to people who then turn into criminals.